Word: consensus
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...Harvard this fall. Patterns of student government could be re-shaped and fixed for years. By the same token, the new Student Assembly, to be elected for the first time this fall after being evolved by the convention last year, could fizzle out and fade away. There is no consensus to be found among the crystal gazers...
...convention's new constitution had received from students. About 70 per cent of the students who voted approved the constitution--despite a few controversial clauses--and about 85 per cent of the undergraduate body showed up at the polls. This constituted one of the most dramatic displays of student consensus in years. But while the convention delegates had labored long over the development of a workable student government, and had tried hard to garner approval from undergraduates, no one had spend much time pondering how the new Student Assembly would mesh with the existing network of student-Faculty committees. Consequently...
...were a U.S. proconsul. Washington is anxious to change that image, but it does not want to see a power vacuum that could be filled by a pro-Castro regime. The U.S. has, however, taken soundings of Nicaragua's neighbors. Said an Administration official: "The consensus is that the sooner Somoza gets out, the better...
...results-a number of participants proved talkative, and TIME'S Jordan Bonfante and Roland Flamini have pieced together much of the story of the proceedings in the Sistine Chapel. It is clear that Luciani came to power through no accident, but as a result of a spontaneous consensus that evolved from three agreements reached during the lengthy pre-conclave period that followed the death of Pope Paul...
...should be judicious and flexible in the manner of contemporary leadership, exercising his authority not by issuing decrees but by giving reasons; not by commanding but by inspiring; not by making lonely decisions in isolation but by wrestling for common consensus in open dialogue. In all he should be the guarantor of freedom in the church...